Syllabus: BBA (Hons)

Programme details for the Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours)

Courses Presented in This Programme

The BBA (Hons) includes the following compulsory courses and components:

• Supply Chain Management
• Business Mathematics
• Operations Management
• A practical project
• Written report

Duration of the Programme

This programme has a minimum learning duration of eight months before the qualification certificate can be issued. The maximum learning duration is normally two years.

Prerequisites

Completion of the BBA or having been granted the status of a BBA qualification through the process of recognition of prior earning (RPL), as confirmed by the CU Senate.

Single courses may be enrolled for to complete other qualifications. In such cases the student must consider that the courses sequentially before each course were selected by CU to serve as foundational knowledge for the more advanced courses.

Supply Chain Management

Credits: 24

Synopsis. The objective in this course is for students to learn the strategic importance of good supply chain design, planning, and operation for every firm. Within a strategic framework, students identify facilities, inventory, transportation, and information as the key drivers of supply chain performance. For each driver the course provides practical managerial levers and concepts that may be used to improve supply chain performance. Utilizing these managerial levers requires knowledge of analytic methodologies for supply chain analysis. This course gives the student an understanding of these methodologies and stresses the managerial context in which they are used and the managerial levers for improvement that they support.

Outline. The following aspects are reflected in this course:

• Understanding the supply chain
• Supply chain performance: achieving strategic fit and scope
• Supply chain drivers and obstacles
• Designing the distribution network in a supply chain
• Network design in the supply chain
• Network design in an uncertain environment
• Demand forecasting in a supply chain
• Aggregate planning in the supply chain
• Planning supply and demand in the supply chain: managing predictable variability
• Managing economies of scale in the supply chain: cycle inventory
• Managing uncertainty in the supply chain: safety inventory determining optimal level of product availability
• Sourcing decisions in a supply chain
• Transportation in the supply chain
• Pricing and revenue management in the supply chain
• Coordination in the supply chain
• Information technology and the supply chain
• E-business and the supply chain

Business Mathematics

Credits: 22

Synopsis. This course offers a comprehensive and effective demonstration of mathematical basic concepts through extensive use of business examples taken from real-world applications.

Outline. The following aspects are reflected in this course:

• Problem solving with whole numbers and decimals
• Problem solving with fractions and percents
• Problem solving with formulas and equations
• Statistics, tables, and graphs
• Bank records
• Payroll
• Trade and cash discounts
• Mark-up and markdown
• Simple interest and simple discount
• Compound interest, future value, and present value
• Annuities and sinking funds
• Consumer credit
• Depreciation
• Inventory, turnover, and overhead
• Financial statements
• Insurance
• Taxes
• Stocks and bonds

Operations Management

Credits: 21

Synopsis. This course provides students with a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of operations management. The goal of this course is to show the fundamental principles of operations and how they relate to effectively producing goods and services.

Outline. The following aspects are reflected in this course:

• Competing with operations
• Process management
• Managing project processes
• Managing technology
• Quality
• Capacity supplement: waiting lines
• Location and layout
• Supply chain management
• Forecasting
• Inventory management
• Aggregate planning and scheduling
• Resource planning
• Lean systems

Project

Credits: 20

Synopsis. The aim of the project is to put theory into practice. It is expected of our students to participate and apply their acquired management skills in an approved project in a business or organisational environment. Members of the project team will perform a variety of tasks designated to them by the appointed project leader and the course professor. These tasks are divergent in nature and will be determined by the nature of the project.

The student's contribution to the effective functioning of the group and the successful completion of the project will be assessed. In order to maintain a set standard of assessment, guidelines for assessing group participation are provided.

Report

Credits: 20

Synopsis. The student, his academic tutor and the course professor will work together on constructing a set of outcomes and methodologies on an approved topic in the field of Business Management.

Sometimes an assessment may involve the completion of a group report. One way of approaching this is for each member of the group to look at a different aspect and thus complete a separate section. If this is the case, care is taken that the finished product is presented as a coherent piece of work, in both content and style. This can take some time, so ensure that there is enough time to do it properly.

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